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...sooo beautiful.' " He did, weighing in last week at a rock-hard 213½ Ibs. His measurements in fact differed in only one respect from those taken at his last fight in 1967: he had added 1 Jin. to his biceps. "I'm hitting much harder and sharper now," Ali boasted. It sounded like the old Cassius con, but his manager, Angelo Dundee, was quick to agree: "He's so close to being the Ali of 3½ years ago that it's scary...
...most recent New York poll shows the three candidates running neck and neck and neck. The New York Times has endorsed Goodell, but the Agnew attacks can be expected to grow sharper as the election nears. Right now it's a tossup, but with the liberals split all to hell, Buckley could be the next Senator...
John Gardner has been an academic, a Government adviser, a federal administrator and a foundation executive. Through it all, he has also been a social and political gadfly. Last week the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare announced that he was searching for broader wings and a sharper bite. To that end, he plans to organize a citizens' group that would attempt to influence and reform atrophied, unresponsive political institutions...
...night and, if they have the right equipment, to replay a sequence or freeze the action in order to study Palmer's back swing or tend to a squalling baby. Because the signal goes by wire to the TV set, the picture reproduction will be far sharper than on today's over-the-air video...
Ruefully, Rinfret concedes: "That got me a lot of bad publicity." Even so, he still defends that forecast as technically accurate, because classic recessions have involved, for example, sharper rises in unemployment and declines in production than the U.S. has experienced. But of late he has vacillated. "The only way to solve inflation is by a recession," he wrote two months ago, "and that is the way we seem to be heading." After President Nixon's latest speech on the economy, Rinfret again changed his mind. "It was a turning point in economic policy," he says. "The odds modestly...